BERKELEY – California men's tennis opens the dual-match season on the road vs. Florida State in Orlando, Florida, at 8 a.m. PT on Sunday as part of the USTA National Campus Collegiate Series. The Golden Bears had been scheduled to play at Pacific on Tuesday at 12 p.m., but rain in Stockton, California, forced the postponement of the match. Please check CalBears.com for a new date for the clash with the Tigers.
 
For the live scores link for Sunday's match against Florida State, please click here. That match will be played at the USTA National Campus, which features 100 courts spread across 64 acres in Orlando.
 
There is  a 60-percent chance of rain in Orlando on Sunday, which could result in the Cal-FSU match being moved indoors to the adidas Performance Center (Player Development) at the USTA National Campus. Please check CalBears.com and Cal's Twitter @CalMensTennis for weather and scheduling updates.
 
The Bears are coming off of a strong fall, which featured plenty of success in doubles. Sophomores Jacob Brumm and freshman Yuta Kikuchi In particular shone in their new partnership. They capped a sensational first half of the season when they reached the doubles semifinals of the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships in November. Kikuchi also competed in singles at fall nationals, falling in the round of 64. In its first tournament together as a doubles team, the duo upset the No. 1 (Mississippi State's Nuno Borges and Strahinja Rakic) and No. 16 (Virginia Tech's Carlo Donato/Mitch Harper) doubles pairs en route to the quarterfinals at the Saint Francis Health System All-American Championships in October.
 
Cal sophomores Paul Barretto and Can Kaya also stood out in doubles, as they reached the semifinals of the ITA Northwest Regional Championships in October and won the Milwaukee Tennis Classic in September.
 
Florida State is 5-0 and hasn't lost a singles match yet during the dual-match season. The Seminoles have only lost one doubles match so far, which came in their most recent win, 4-0 over FAU on Jan. 18, as host FSU clinched the title of the Florida State Spring Invitational. Florida State junior Rana-Roop Singh Bhular is ranked 84th in singles.
 
Poll Position
No surprises in the current Oracle ITA doubles poll, which includes two Cal pairs in No. 14 Yuta Kikuchi and Jacob Brumm and No. 18 Paul Barretto and Can Kaya. In singles, Paul Barretto is ranked 98th. Cal isn't ranked in the first Oracle ITA top 25 team poll of the season, but the Bears are listed second among teams receiving votes. The next team poll comes out on Jan. 24, while new singles and doubles rankings comes out on Feb. 6
 
Next Time
Cal faces 17th-ranked Virginia on the first day of the ITA Kick-Off Weekend at No. 9 Texas A&M on Jan. 26 in College Station, Texas. The winner of the four-team event – that includes the host Aggies and Western Michigan – will be decided on Jan. 27, and that team will advance to the Oracle ITA National Team Indoor Championship in Chicago in February.